Frontail is very difficult to install on arm
Bagunda opened this issue · 4 comments
In particular - npm is difficult to install.
I installed your wonderful program on about 10 mashines with arm architecture (raspberry pi, banana pi).
There is always a big problem with installing npm and nodejs.
Can you make the installation easier?
root@BPIm64_HDL:~# apt install npm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
npm : Depends: nodejs (>= 6.11~) but 4.8.2~dfsg-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-abbrev (>= 1.1.1~) but 1.0.9-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-ansi-regex (>= 3.0~) but 2.0.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-cacache (>= 10.0.4~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: node-config-chain (>= 1.1.11~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: node-glob (>= 7.1.2~) but 7.1.1-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-hosted-git-info (>= 2.6~) but 2.1.5-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-ini (>= 1.3.5~) but 1.1.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-npm-package-arg but it is not going to be installed
Depends: node-jsonstream (>= 1.3.2~) but 1.0.3-4 is to be installed
Depends: node-libnpx (>= 10.0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: node-lockfile (>= 1.0.3~) but 0.4.1-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-lru-cache (>= 4.1.1~) but 4.0.2-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-move-concurrently (>= 1.0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: node-normalize-package-data (>= 2.4~) but 2.3.5-2 is to be installed
Depends: node-gyp (>= 3.6.2~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: node-resolve-from (>= 4.0~) but 2.0.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-npmlog (>= 4.1.2~) but 0.0.4-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-osenv (>= 0.1.5~) but 0.1.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-read-package-json (>= 2.0.13~) but 1.2.4-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-request (>= 2.83~) but 2.26.1-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-retry (>= 0.10.1~) but 0.6.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-rimraf (>= 2.6.2~) but 2.5.4-2 is to be installed
Depends: node-semver (>= 5.5~) but 5.3.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-sha (>= 2.0.1~) but 1.2.3-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-slide (>= 1.1.6~) but 1.1.4-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-strip-ansi (>= 4.0~) but 3.0.1-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-tar (>= 4.4~) but 2.2.1-1 is to be installed
Depends: node-boxen (>= 1.2.1~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: node-latest-version (>= 3.0~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: node-which (>= 1.3~) but 1.2.11-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
In general, it's a bit tricky. Theoretically, I could compile frontail to a single executable file (as I do for linux, windows and macos). The thing is that it's impossible to cross compile for ARM (vercel/pkg#605).
ARM - it's small computer with small RAM, ROM, CPU.
And we need to install very big packages... :(
And a lot of problems.
Some packeges are difficult to install.
I do not know how to compile. Small knowledge...
I followed the quick start guide in a Pi3 and was up and running in less than a minute. This is a great tool and seems perfect so far, I don't see any need for improvement on ARM.